Things start getting way out of hand and then go even further until the audience can't help but snicker. I don't mean nervous laughter either. I'm talking full-on "lost our patience" laughter. Sarsgaard and Enos are exceptional actors, but as with The Killing, Sud's focus on character over plot gradually tips The Lie into preposterousness - and the plot of We Monsters strained credulity in the first place.
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View all 8 comments. Mar 02, Liz Barnsley rated it it was amazing. Jane Hughes was not always Jane Hughes. In her other existence she and a group of friends went on the trip of a lifetime — What happened during that holiday led Jane to change her name and hide away from the world. Now, however, someone has tracked her down and soon the truth will emerge… I do love books like this for their utterly addictive quality, where a past story is slowly drip fed to you in conjunction with present events, slowly but surely leading you towards the full picture.
Ms Taylor does this particularly well by using some really excellent and emotive characters to pull you in.
These friends could be any friends — the relationships we form as we head into adulthood tend to be the ones that stay with us even if we drift apart, this is captured in essence here perfectly even as this particular group fractures and falls. I adored hated in equal measure every single one of them. This is why it is so completely enthralling throughout…. I will give a nod to Daisy.
Daisy was a character who I wanted to punch in the mouth and I am not a violent person. Overall then a most terrific read, a huge page turner and a beautifully written snapshot of friendship and the things that separate us. Convincing and chilling, this comes highly recommended from me. View all 4 comments. Mar 21, Mark Edwards rated it really liked it. In the crowded psychological thriller market it can be tough to stand out, but CL Taylor succeeds here by mixing a zeitgeisty tale of friendship-gone-wrong and secrets from the past with Alex Garland's 90s blockbuster The Beach.
This is a fast-paced, tense and atmospheric novel; a good old-fashioned thumping good read.
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The descriptions of the sinister community in Nepal are evocative and exciting. There are some great set-pieces - CL Taylor is brilliant at writing nail-biting action scenes - and In the crowded psychological thriller market it can be tough to stand out, but CL Taylor succeeds here by mixing a zeitgeisty tale of friendship-gone-wrong and secrets from the past with Alex Garland's 90s blockbuster The Beach.
There are some great set-pieces - CL Taylor is brilliant at writing nail-biting action scenes - and the characterisation is spot-on. This is a guaranteed bestseller and that's, ahem, The Truth. Mar 02, sue rated it really liked it Shelves: After reading "The Accident" which kept my blood pumping fast way into the night I have been silently stalking C L Taylor.
From afar I have been waiting for this book to come out, and way hooooo, it came out on Net Galley. I also heard from her publishers in my email account, so hey, I guess they knew I couldn't wait. I have purposely waited until now to get my reading matter done on this new book from this author as I know many would grab and start reading it right away. I wanted to wait. I wanted to wait for the hype to simmer down so that I could chill out We have a bunch of friends who go travelling, it was meant to be three destinations, but they only got to two.
You need to keep up as the book reflects back on the past. Jane Hugh works and loves being in the animal sanctuary.
She has a steady man in her life, she seems to be happy. But Jane cannot be happy because as we all know, the past can come back to bite you on the bum! And that is exactly what happens to her. The ones we thought we could trust, can we? The ones we thought we couldn't trust, can we not?
I adored this authors last book, and I loved this book. I really don't know how authors dream up these stories, they are enthralling, compulsive, addictive and my time just flies when reading books such as this. My thanks go to C L Taylor for yet another compulsive read I won't forget.
Jun 07, Aoife rated it did not like it Shelves: The Lie focuses around Emma and is split into the present where she is working in Wales and known by the name Jane Hughes and four years earlier when Emma went on a holiday to Nepal with three of her best friends and only two of them returned alive. Emma has built a new life for herself as Jane but she sudden;y starts receiving ominous messages and must figure out who is threatening her. They're all selfish and just idiotic. When the girls go to the camp in Nepal, it's immediately obvious something weird is going on and Emma knows it yet she just goes with it?
WHY would you give your passports to someone you don't know? Why not just pay the money you would be paying anyway at the end and keep the passport. They are he most precious thing you have when abroad and I know I wouldn't be giving mine up to anyway when halfway up a fecking mountain away from normal civilisation. There were a lot of times listening to this that I wanted to scream out loud in frustration at both Emma's actions and her friends and how they treated her.
Daisy was suppose to be best friend and was literally the worst. I found it really odd how she could turn on Emma so suddenly and be sucked in by Isaac. Having recently read The Girls by Emma Cline which focuses on a cult in California in , I can see how a cult leader can be written to be so charismatic and drawing that you get why people would worship and listen to him. Isaac wasn't like that - apart from being good-looking, he did just come across as being controlling and weird all the time. I would be down that mountain in a flash. The part after Emma was almost raped which was really hard to listen to btw and Daisy spread around the rumor that Emma had asked for it and was lying made me so mad - especially with what's going on right now with the Stanton rape case.
Emma's stupidity contInued even when she was Jane. She knew something was off aBout the new girl in the shelter yet she just continued on. Haven't you learned anything? The ending was definitely weak and just seemed like such a let down. The audiobook for this wasn't great for me either. The narrator put on a lot of strong accents which were not only annoying and distracting sometimes but slowed down her reading. She also made the one gay character, Al, sound really mannish which was unnecessary. Jan 02, Tracy Fenton rated it really liked it. This was a gripping psychological thriller examining the fragility of friendship between 4 young women each emotionally damaged in their own way.
I literally could not put this book down and read it within a day whilst cooking and stayed up most of the night to finish it. CL Taylor has a fabulous talent of describing places and people that I could visualise everything as I read it. Highly recommend this book. My review of C. When I finally took the plunge, The Lie indeed turned out to be an excellent read.
Isaac, the cult leader, is a particularly vile specimen who talks Tavistock Square jargon in a revoltingly lower-class Scots accent reproduced in all its ugliness in the Audible edition. That may be why The Accident failed to entertain me. So, thank you very much C. Jan 20, Paul rated it it was amazing Shelves: If Cally was a musician who had an excellent debut album we would be talking about the difficult second album but fortunately for us she is a writer who gets even better with her second book. The Lie is an absolutely brilliant thriller that keeps you guessing all the way to the end, with plenty of twists that keeps you guessing.
The telling of the story from 2 aspects again appears in this thriller and is a fantastic device. Emma, Daisy, Leanne and Al became friends at University up in Newcastle and even when they all relocated down to London after graduation they remained close. They are all stuck in jobs that they do not enjoy and seem to be stuck going nowhere even in their relationships with others.
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To blast the cobwebs away from their lives they decided to go on the holiday of a lifetime to Nepal to a retreat, Ekanta yatra, Leanne organised the trip for them all. Four of them leave for the holiday of a life time but there are only two who return as the others were dead. Five year later the two survivors are no longer in contact with each other, Emma angry that Al sold their story to a newspaper, both moved away from London.
Emma has reinvented herself as Jane Hughes, who works at an animal sanctuary in Wales called Green Fields. Since getting back from Nepal Emma has tried to move on from what happened and that her two friends died there. She is in a new relationship and maybe something is going well for her for a change. Emma receives a letter and a couple of emails that shakes her to the core telling her that Daisy is alive and it is her that should be dead.
Facebook messages and text messages also start arriving that shakes her up, along with a new volunteer at Green Fields who seems far too interested in her.
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It is when she is a victim of a hit and run accident that things start to turn serious and she is advised that she could be in danger as the police investigate. It is when Green Fields is set alight that she finally has to face the demons of her past and can she save the innocent victims the animals while protecting her own life? The Lie is a downright dark and very twisted psychological thriller that is a compelling rollercoaster of a read especially as the tension builds to a crescendo finale when we finally receive the answers to the questions posed throughout the book.
With the multiple twists in the examination of friendships and cults you really do enter a dark and very creepy world. The characters are well developed well written and the story really does grip you by the throat and not let you go until the end. I certainly would not want to get on the wrong side of Cally Taylor because The Lie is an example of her thinking she has a seriously twisted mind that would make her revenge a very painful cold dish being served.
The Lie is a dark twisted totally creepy psychological thriller that will have you gripped from the beginning to the end. Who knew friendships could be as dangerous as those in The Lie after reading this I shall be reassessing my friendships for sure. Mar 03, Jules rated it it was amazing Shelves: The Lie was a thrilling read that was very hard to put down. The main focus of this story is about female friendships, and what can happen if those friendships become strained and taken over by competitiveness, jealousy and lack of trust. Jane previously named Emma tries to reinvent her life after the traumatic holiday in Nepal, which she went on with her three friends five years earlier.
Unfortunately that is not meant to The Lie was a thrilling read that was very hard to put down. Unfortunately that is not meant to be, and her past comes back to haunt her in more ways than one. Someone knows about her past and is taunting her in the present. Who is it and what will be the outcome? As the story progresses, we learn what actually happened in Nepal. There is a very interesting mix of characters, some more likeable than others.
I softened to Jane immediately, as I loved her compassion for animals. The depth of secrets and lies amongst the four friends is rather impressive, and makes it very hard to work out who is good or bad, and who is safe to trust. Every time the book took me back to Nepal, I just wanted to get out of there. I could feel my anxiety increasing every time I was taken back into the past, and would be screaming at some of the characters to get out of there NOW. I would like to thank the publisher, HarperCollins UK, Avon for allowing me a copy of this book via Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.
View all 22 comments. May 19, Gary rated it really liked it. I would like to thank both Net Galley and my Goodread friend Jules for recommending this book to me. A psychological thriller based on the friendship of four girls who encounter jealousy and misunderstandings that put their relationships to the test. The story alternates between present day and the nightmare that occurred 5 years ago. A fast paced thriller that is both an excellent page turner and a very good novel that is full of very strong characters.
I enjoyed the book so much that I plan to I would like to thank both Net Galley and my Goodread friend Jules for recommending this book to me. I enjoyed the book so much that I plan to read another of the authors books "The Accident" very soon. Nov 21, Karen rated it really liked it. I was lucky enough to receive an ARC from the publisher which has been glaring at me from the bookshelf, until I couldn't wait any longer and bumped it up to the top of the TBR. Five years ago, Jane Hughes was called Emma Woolfe and she and three friends set out for the holiday of a lifetime to Nepal.
The fun that they were expecting however soon turned into a ni Having read C L Taylor's debut thriller last year, The Accident, which I loved, The Lie was on my wishlist as soon as it was announced. The fun that they were expecting however soon turned into a nightmare. The suspense starts at the very beginning when Jane receives a letter at the animal sanctuary where she now works, indicating that someone knows her secret. I was hooked already and intrigued to find out why Jane changed her name and what did she have to hide? The story then flips between the present and the past. We also see the cracks that gradually appear in the friendship and watch it becoming something nasty and frightening.
The characterization is so good - people who you thought were trustworthy turn out to be anything but and the sinister undertones increase as gradually the story unfolds. All four friends had flawed but interesting characters. They may not have been very likeable but each had their own issues which all played a part in the trauma that was to follow. The Ektanta yatra retreat, where they were staying, was anything but a haven of peace and tranquility, some of the people there may have seemed charming and welcoming but a few had an agenda of their own.
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Most of the time my sympathy was with Emma — there were times when I thought she was a bit naive but I could identify with her character and I felt for her at the way she was treated. This excellent story has so much going for it — there is a wonderful sense of place, particularly the setting in Nepal and there is darkness to the plot which made me worry for the four friends and added to the sense of fear as I turned the page.
May 21, Petra rated it really liked it Shelves: She embarked on the trip of a lifetime with three female friends visiting a "retreat" in Nepal. What happened during their time ab "Your past doesn't have to define your future, not if you won't let it" is one of the messages in The Lie. This was my first time reading a book by British author C. Taylor, and I really enjoyed it. The Lie was a very sinister and atmospheric tale of psychological suspense. At one stage, I was doubting everybody who was around Jane, completely unsure whom to trust. Jane was a very likable character, but there weren't many of those.
I thought the book was extremely good at depicting the dynamics of groups. Firstly, the female toxic friendships that were shaped by competitiveness, envy and bitterness and secondly, the group dynamics at the "retreat" in Nepal, which showed how easily people can be manipulated and how dangerous a situation can turn once a follow-the-leader environment has been established. However, there were some situations in Nepal as well as in Wales where I felt the plot was losing some credibility. Nevertheless, it was such a tense, fast-paced and provocative story, which was refreshingly different, I really liked it and will seek out more by this author.
Many thanks to Sourcebooks Landmark for my copy via NetGalley in exchange for an honest review. Mar 02, Margaret Madden rated it it was amazing Shelves: Jane has a nice settled life. Living and working in the Welsh countryside has its benefits. A job in the local animal sanctuary, a new boyfriend with great potential as a keeper and a peaceful existence overall. However, she has been hiding the truth from everyone and an anonymous note may be the beginning of the end of her quiet days, as her secret comes back to haunt her. Five years previously, a different world, a different circle of friends and a summer of change.
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A girls holiday, a right o Jane has a nice settled life. A girls holiday, a right of passage that most young women enjoy before settling down and having kids. Sun, adventure and escapism. What could go wrong?